You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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